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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Profiles and Cloud Properties by Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers in Central China

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Thermodynamic and liquid water profiles can be retrieved by a ground-based microwave radiometer (MWR) in nearly all weather conditions, which is useful for detecting mesoscale phenomena.
Guirong Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Major heavy rainfall events in China from April to October in 2019

open access: yes暴雨灾害, 2020
Based on 2 400 daily precipitation data in mainland China and operational synoptic charts, the major heavy rainfall events happened in China from April to October in 2019 were selected by comparing their precipitation with the average precipitation from ...
Airong MIN   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flood of June 9, 1957, at Perry, Florida [PDF]

open access: yes, 1958
Floods occurred on streams in the vicinity of Perry, Taylor County, Florida, on June 9, 1957, as a result of heavy rains from atropical disturbance. Serious flooding occurred in Perry along Spring and Pimple creeks as outlined by the shaded area in ...
Musgrove, R. H.
core  

Characteristics of vertical velocities estimated from drop size and fall velocity spectra of a Parsivel disdrometer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Vertical air velocities were estimated from drop size and fall velocity spectra observed by Parsivel disdrometers during intensive field observations from 13 June to 3 August 2016 around Mt. Jiri (1915ma.s.l.) in the southern Korean Peninsula.
Kim, Dong-Kyun, Song, Chang-Keun
core   +2 more sources

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of environment on the sudden track change of super typhoon GAEMI(2024)

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science
To improve understanding of essential aspects that influence forecasting of tropical cyclone sudden track change, by using ERA5 reanalysis data provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the synoptic analysis method and ...
Yiming Ma   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

WRF-Model Data Assimilation Studies of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Orographic Precipitation Over Northern California [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this study, data assimilation methods of 3-D variational analysis (3DVAR), observation nudging, and analysis (grid) nudging were evaluated in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for a high-impact, multi-episode landfalling atmospheric ...
Eiserloh, Arthur John
core   +1 more source

Intensity of Vascular Streak Dieback in Different Cocoa Clones and Various Agro-climatic Conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Vascular streak dieback (VSD) is one of the main diseases on cocoa. This disease can produce a heavy damage in susceptible plants. Agro-climatic condition influences the VSD disease severity level.
Anita-Sari, I. (Indah)   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

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